Rachel Cox

MEMORY

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  The Redwood Curtain (III)

    Reagan for President posters from 1980 and 1984 (Part I: California Sublime, Part II: Desert Requiem) I heard the phrase “Redwood Curtain” for the first time in Arizona. Coincidentally, Maria’s daughter had just finished a half-year internship at Redwoods National Park north of the Bay and she explained that the curtain refers to the [...]

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  Desert requiem (II)

  Chris Floyd (Part I: California Sublime) The Desert Border Last September I drove out to Tucson to scout out the issue and rode along with Maria and her daughter as they drove along the backroads around the Arizona-Mexico border. Maria belongs to a volunteer non-profit organization called the Samaritans, who ride out with medical supplies [...]

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  California sublime (I)

  The Mountains Declare His Glory, Thomas Kinkade “After completing my recent plein air study of Yosemite Valley, the mountains majesty refused to leave me,” Kinkade wrote in June 2000 on his web site. “When my family wandered through the national park visitor center, I discovered a key to my fantasy – a recreation of a [...]

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  Western geology / Kodachrome in ’66

  Charlie Mansfield The last photo is a view of Shiprock that I found while searching the net trying to confirm one of my own photos of the formation. These were apparently part of a 1966 light plane flight by Louis Maher and Charlie Mansfield. There are many other photos ranging across the Colorado Plateau. The [...]

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  First sight

  And I think: what a terrible place the coast is. To tempt you out with such color and then leave you so cold and damp from sheer love of the thing. Is it the fog spray or the condensation on the heat of your body? And what a terrible thing to forget something like that, [...]